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If Monday Was a Video... Also, The Most Unsatisfying Video in the World ever made - pt. 1 and then pt. 2
posted by Gorgik (30 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
Cutting room floor gold
posted by clavdivs at 5:19 PM on August 11, 2018


I hate it when I accidentally put Ketchup on a hotdog.
posted by octothorpe at 5:20 PM on August 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


Well, it IS called a Kinder Surprise.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:21 PM on August 11, 2018 [2 favorites]


Some of these made me full-body cringe. To quote Lindsay Ellis, Thanks! I hate it!
posted by Monster_Zero at 5:26 PM on August 11, 2018 [7 favorites]


You mean that's not how butter's supposed to work?
posted by wanderingmind at 5:39 PM on August 11, 2018


Previously unsatisfying.
posted by SansPoint at 5:46 PM on August 11, 2018 [2 favorites]


HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?

THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY!
posted by ardgedee at 6:16 PM on August 11, 2018 [5 favorites]


So what WAS that inside the Kinder Egg? A plastic orb full of dirt?
posted by Nerd of the North at 6:16 PM on August 11, 2018


Is life really this hard for people?
posted by cjorgensen at 6:27 PM on August 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


For me, a comforting video. I'm clearly not the only moron who struggles with a simple roll of tape.
posted by davebush at 6:30 PM on August 11, 2018


This is like the Glengarry leads for Ronco inventors.
posted by condour75 at 7:18 PM on August 11, 2018 [9 favorites]


The plastic wrap got me. I knew it would be back after finally getting opened.
posted by Miss Cellania at 7:31 PM on August 11, 2018 [2 favorites]


When the music faded out at about 1:45 in the Most Unsatisfying Video pt. 1 I thought it was going to stay off as part of the joke.
posted by a car full of lions at 7:32 PM on August 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


Welcome to Heck.
posted by fluttering hellfire at 7:35 PM on August 11, 2018 [10 favorites]


I have one of those safety-gold plastic orbs, given to me by a pal. I have no idea what was originally in it.
posted by mwhybark at 7:53 PM on August 11, 2018


oh god the tomato cutting
posted by nnethercote at 8:01 PM on August 11, 2018 [2 favorites]


The plastic wrap... You need to push the sides of the box in to hold the tube in place...

Thank you for making relive all the moments when I want to hover over my teenager but I can't because he needs to work this stuff out for himself but AAAARHG
posted by biddeford at 9:18 PM on August 11, 2018


On behalf of both Roy Orbison and myself, let me just say "fuck cling wrap."
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:32 PM on August 11, 2018 [6 favorites]


So what WAS that inside the Kinder Egg? A plastic orb full of dirt?

I suspect shenanigans - when the foil is peeled away, you can see the egg halves are already separated at the top.
posted by each day we work at 11:43 PM on August 11, 2018


That Monday video is what it is like to be doing unfamiliar physical tasks. Drives people around me insane, but I need to learn physically, I can't look at things and tell what to avoid.
posted by hfnuala at 1:07 AM on August 12, 2018


That was fantastic and became the anticipation of tension and release in ingenious ways. Loved it, and made me roar with laughter.

It's clowning isn't it? You have to have perfect physical control to perform incompetence so accurately.

Can people who felt uncomfortable explain the discomfort? Why does it hurt so much to watch someone make a completely minor mistake?
posted by eyeofthetiger at 4:46 AM on August 12, 2018


Yes, it's clowning. And the discomfort is what makes it funny! Why should I feel squirmy when I see someone deliberately botching a cake cutting? I don't know, but I do. It's like being tickled.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 5:34 AM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


The plastic wrap... You need to push the sides of the box in to hold the tube in place...

There are some heathen countries where the boxes don't have those punchouts on the ends.
posted by scruss at 6:00 AM on August 12, 2018


That's why you should never buy dollar store plastic wrap.
posted by lordrunningclam at 6:40 AM on August 12, 2018


Oh god, the plastic wrap
Pull the tab from the other end
THE OTHER END
THERE IS A RED ARROW ON IT WHERE YOU SHOULD PULL
posted by saturday_morning at 7:31 AM on August 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


My favorites in the first video are the occasions (duct tape, plastic wrap) where the person's unnecessary devotion to things being neat takes the situation from "Finally. Meh, it'll do" to "OMGWTFBBQARGH"
posted by pykrete jungle at 8:30 AM on August 12, 2018


I laughed aloud at the not-quite-empty bottle vs overfilling mug. I've done that. I've also botched the tearing of cling wrap only to make things much worse by attempting to finish it by hand. And also using the resulting mess to poorly wrap the food.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have some OCD tendencies toward the polar opposite of what we see here -- such as if I fold anything, the edges have to line up perfectly -- and that's why watching these make me uncomfortable. The cake made me especially uncomfortable even though, unlike most of the others, it was obviously deliberate and not an ordinary screw-up.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 12:54 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


Wow. Someone has made a documentary of my life.
posted by The Seeds of Autumn at 4:12 AM on August 13, 2018 [2 favorites]


Isn't this just a tidy version of how to basic?
posted by The Seeds of Autumn at 4:14 AM on August 13, 2018


50% of the hand gestures in the first video seem to say "aww what a mess", and 50% say "LOOK AT WHAT YOU MADE DADDY DO. LOOK AT IT."
posted by aliasless at 1:54 PM on August 13, 2018 [2 favorites]


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